In the Footsteps of the Pioneers

The Goethe Institute, British Council and Italian Cultural Institute have come together to bring us an exhibition of photographs taken by the "pioneer photographers". It's a great idea but, unfortunately, the exhibition lacks a useful explanatory program.

May 22, 2001

OPEN BOUNDARIES
An exhibition of photographs by William Fox Talbot, Eadweard Muybridge, Erwin Blumenfield and Gianni B. Gardin
Venue :The Italian Cultural Center, in collaboration with the British Council and the Goethe Institute.
Time:until May 31

It so happened that during his honeymoon in 1833 on the shores of Lake Como in Italy, William Fox Talbot felt himself to have failed. Even though he was using a camera lucida—a device to aid arti

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